Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Charles Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. His accolades include a British Academy Games Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. Wright began his career in theater, where he gained prominence for his role in the Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1993), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in the acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation (2003), earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. His first starring film role was as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat (1996). His other notable films include Syriana (2005), Lady in the Water (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), The Ides of March (2011), and Rustin (2023). He has also acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch (2021), Asteroid City (2023) and The Phoenician Scheme (2025), and has played Peoples Hernandez in Shaft (2000), Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), and No Time to Die (2021), Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films, and Jim Gordon in The Batman (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in American Fiction (2023).…

Jeffrey Charles Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. His accolades include a British Academy Games Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. Wright began his career in theater, where he gained prominence for his role in the Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1993), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in the acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation (2003), earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. His first starring film role was as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat (1996). His other notable films include Syriana (2005), Lady in the Water (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), The Ides of March (2011), and Rustin (2023). He has also acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch (2021), Asteroid City (2023) and The Phoenician Scheme (2025), and has played Peoples Hernandez in Shaft (2000), Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), and No Time to Die (2021), Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films, and Jim Gordon in The Batman (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in American Fiction (2023). Wright earned acclaim for his role as Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2013–2014) and robot programmer Bernard Lowe in the HBO series Westworld (2016–2022), the latter of which earned him three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also appeared as Isaac Dixon in the video game The Last of Us Part II (2020) and the Watcher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) beginning with the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021–2024). In 2025, he voiced the character Chase in the superhero comedy video game Dispatch and reprised his role as Isaac Dixon in the second season of the HBO series adaptation of The Last of Us (2025–present). For the former, he won the British Academy Games Award for Performer in a Supporting Role. ==Career== ==Personal life== Wright married actress Carmen Ejogo in August 2000. They have a son and a daughter and lived in Brooklyn, New York City. They have since divorced. He is a fan of the Washington Commanders. In 2004, Wright received an honorary degree from his alma mater Amherst College. Wright was the chairman and co-founder of the now-defunct Taia, LLC and Taia Peace Foundation and Vice Chairman of Taia Lion Resources, Inc, a gold-exploration company which sought to create a sustainable and conflict-free gold mining operation in Sierra Leone. ==Acting credits== ===Film=== ===Television=== ===Video games=== ===Audio=== ==Awards and nominations== ==See also== African-American Tony nominees and winners List of black Academy Award winners and nominees List of actors with Academy Award nominations List of Primetime Emmy Award winners List of Golden Globe winners ==References== ==External links==

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